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As we have seen after today's trading day the market fears are leading the decline. DJIA down 1.5% and NASDAQ down 2.5%. This is one of those examples where the media and psychological influences will be the driving force behind the market. People ate told how much of a big problem this...

Im a multi trillionare http://houseofthemoon.com/zimbabwecurrency2/50X100trillionspanuse.jpg Trade with discretion. If you see the word "hot" "crazy" "awesome" "cool" when describing a stock sty away from it. I don't care about your "hot new cool penny stock" that is definitely going to...

Your right, just read the whole thing. It deals with taxation of the dividend owed on the short sale. I assumed the article was in some way relevant to my initial question. "Deduct these payments" was in reference to taxation not the owed dividend payment. And of course i love to lose $...

I agree LNKD is overpriced but i do see a future for it. I don't think the concerning competition is Facebook and Google. Most people use LNKD for job hunting and professional connections. Monster.com MWW, is more analogous. They also require a paid subscription for many of their more useful...

That was my initial thought. I was told that Short selling is basically a polar opposite of buying in all respects. I have been told this before, funny how it always in in conjunction with stock trading. :D This appears that you are not required to repay the dividend on a short sell if you...

The last two IPO's i wanted to get into were Linkedin (LNKD) and Pandora (P). They dropped close to 40% within the first month. They then went on to regain all of the losses and come out ahead of the IPO price. I didn't get into them because i found it hard to identify the trough where the...

That's what i thought initially. When short selling was explained to me i was told it was the "polar opposite" of buying. Having not read anything about dividends in a short sale i was unsure. I have been told this before :D Now from this statement it appears that the dividend will...

Any chance you could elaborate on this? I'd love to read any related articles you have.

Is it possible, or better yet legal, to buy and short sell a stock at the same time just to get a dividend? Hypothetically if you do both at the same time the only monetary loss you stand to lose is the brokers fees. This is of course assuming you can buy to cover and sell at the same cost...

I agree, don't mess with other peoples money. Money issues are one of the top issues tearing families and friends apart. You can trade on a margin. This is a way to borrow a percentage of capitol you already have. The major downfall is that you will be charge interest on the amount you are...